Juan Ballesteros

Juan R. Ballesteros Sánchez (UPO) is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy and a specialist in mediaeval and modern historiography on Antiquity. His studies range from classical historiography to the humanistic approach to Antiquity. Recently, he is the author of a critical edition of Iustus Lipsius’ Admiranda (1598). He has also studied the tradition of classical authors such as Aelius Aristides, Martial, and the Historia Augusta in monographic publications. Now he is interested in detecting and studying the ways of quoting, reading and adapting Greek and Latin sources. His goal is to present the General Estoria as a neoclassical experience and the classical elements recovered and employed by the General Estoria team in fields such as Geography, Astronomy, Ethnography or Linguistics.

Maite Caro

Graduated in Geography and History from Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. She subsequently completed a Master's Degree in Egyptology and Oriental Studies at the University of Pisa, where she studied Middle Eastern languages such as Egyptian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, and Syriac.

Contact: mcaro2999@gmail.com

Alejandro Colete

Lecturer at CIEE (Seville) of Polisitics and Society in Contemporary Arab World. PhD in history of Islamic Science and Philosophy (University of Seville, 2021). Master’s Degree in Narrative and Script-writing (2017), and BA in Philosophy (2015). Devoted polyglot (English, German, Arabic, Turkish, Latin, Hebrew, Greek), translator for private business, editor, draughtsman, content creator and film-maker. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the legacy of Late Antiquity in Islamic Science and Philosophy, topic I adressed through the framework of Wittenstein’s philosophy of language. My research focused in the conception of knowledge and its evolution from Antiquity to Late Antiquity. I worked as much as possible with the documents in their original languages (Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Syriac), working with grammar books as much as with the text themselves. His methodolgical approach required thorough knowledge of the grammar of both semitic and indo-european languages, in order to compare exactaly how ideas or concepts were being put into words.

Research interests
Late Antiquity, History of Science and Philosophy, Turkic Studies, Contemporary Islamic World, Middle East, Literature, Antiquity, Polyglotism, The Silk Road, Political Philosophy, Art History, Indo-European Studies, Modern History, Language

Juan Manuel Cortés Copete

Juan Manuel Cortés Copete is Professor of Ancient History, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla. He is an expert in Roman History and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire, with a particular emphasis on the Second Sophistic. He is also interested in the Jews under Roman rule. His most recent research has to do with the unity and diversity in the Roman Empire, and with the formation of a new social identity for the Empire.

José Manuel Luque Romero

José Manuel Luque Romero graduated at the University of Seville where he also studied as a postgraduate level at the University of Seville; he then completed his second master’s degree at the University of Lyons II on the figure of Cléon. After several years of research on the political discourses in the works of Herodian and Cassius Dio, he became a history and geography teacher working for the French Department of Education, where he still works today. Since 2022, he has been preparing a bilingual edition of Eusebius’ Chronicon as a PhD under the supervision of Juan Manuel Cortés Copete.

Nicolás Solari Jarque

Degree in Classical Philology (2017) at the Complutense University of Madrid, Master in Written Historical Heritage (2018) at the Complutense University of Madrid and PhD in Latin Linguistics (2022) at the University of Alcalá.

During the period of his doctoral training he received a grant from the Hugo Schuchardt Foundation of the University of Graz (Austria) and published a large corpus of the Preposition + Adjective adverbial patterns on which his research was focused within the research international project The Third Way, of which he was part as a pre-doctoral researcher.

His line of research focuses on Latin adverbs, especially adverbial formations of preposition and adjective, approaching this topic from diachronic, morphological and semantic perspectives.

Juan Urdaondo Alegre

My research explores the intersection of medieval and early modern Spanish literature, philosophy, science, and culture. Specifically, I examine how the blending of Mediterranean intellectual traditions in Spain influenced the creation of historical narratives that interpreted the legacies of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Additionally, I investigate how theatrical productions were used to both celebrate the past and address intellectual, religious, and military conflicts in early modern Europe. Currently, I am focusing on the translation and reception of external intellectual achievements in the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish Empire. This includes the reception of Muslim, Jewish, and Classical traditions in the Castilian court of Alfonso the Wise, as well as the introduction of Neo-Aristotelian, Neo-Scholastic, and Neoplatonic thought in early modern Spanish and Latin American universities and intellectual circles.

Contact: jpu105@psu.edu